Category: Who Makes the City?
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Eating Cities: When Food Creates Places – Mediamatic & De Kaskantine
Food, cities, and futures are transformed when groups of people come together to address urban issues and shift norms through countercultural practices. In two different areas of Amsterdam, Mediamatic and De Kaskantine can be seen as a dichotomy of art vs. practice, system vs. revolution, planning vs. improvisation, structure vs. impermanence, but these organizations reach…
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A Community Benefits Agreement Grows in Brooklyn
How successful are Community Benefits Agreements in mediating between local interests and global investors in urban renewal projects as the Atlantic Yards?
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Homelessness & NYC’s Public Libraries
Beth Jarret is researching the effects of rampant homelessness on public libraries in New York City, with specific focus on the changing role of the librarian. She looks at the burden homelessness can place on librarians and examines potential solutions based on programs developed in San Jose, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
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Alternative Food Networks in Cities
Over the last couple of decades, urban areas are increasingly characterized by new forms of food production and consumption. The organic food industry in Europe has for instance become an attractive and growing segment of the overall food market in cities (Wier & Carverley, 2002). Existing research about organic food production has characterized organic food…
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Revitalization For Whom? Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown
Karin de Nijs looks into the current revitalization of Vancouver’s Chinatown: the former derelict area becomes attractive again, but who benefits?
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Defending Local Culture on London’s Southbank
How do skateborders transform a city? In a photo essay Katherine VanHoose reports on London, where skateboarders use the unusual architecture @the Southbank
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Bottling Local Identity: the Emergence of the Craft Beer Sector and Local Embeddedness
Skadi Renooy tours us to craft beer producers, shows us their local embeddedness and their function as agents of change. A tasty read guaranteed!
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Implementing Climate Change Goals
How can cities become sustainable and resilient to climate change? Maarten Markus searches for answers by exploring regulations and practices in Boston and Amsterdam.
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Rethinking Urban Transport Planning and Social Exclusion
Pablo Moran shows what the capabilities approach of Amartya Sen means for social exclusion studies by comparing transport systems of Santiago and Amsterdam.
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Specialty Coffee Bars: Are They to Stay or to Go?
Grab a coffee and follow Wietze Gelmers on a tour through coffee bars and see how they make your city and influence your need for them.